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Abbey Road [Vinyl](more) »rank: 664by: The Beatles
Our review: essential recording:The Beatles' last days as a band were as productive as any major pop phenomenon that was about to split. After recording the ragged-but-right Let It Be, the group held on for this ambitious effort, an album that was to become their best-selling. Though all four contribute to the first side's writing, John Lennon's hard-rocking, 'Come Together' and 'I Want You (She's So Heavy)' make the strongest impression. A series of song fragments edited together in suite form dominates side two; its portentous, touching, official close ('Golden Slumbers'/'Carry That Weight'/'The End') is nicely undercut, in typical Beatles fashion, by Paul McCartney's ... Detail |
Pet Sounds (VINYL)(more) »rank: 9089by: The Beach Boys
Our review:Album Description:180 Gram/Audiophile pressing Original printed sleeve Detail |
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Revolver(more) »rank: 11302by: The Beatles
Our review:Album Description:It is nearly impossible to overestimate this record. Revolver straddles with steady legs the divide between the exuberant pop of the '60s beat boom and the experimental outlands that followed. And then pisses over it all. Revolver stands at the summit of western pop music, partly by virtue of its centrality to the musical revolution of the '60s, and partly because its songs have endured as well as any ever written. On cuts like 'Taxman' (featuring a fantastically ferocious guitar solo from, of all people, Paul McCartney) and 'Doctor Robert,' The Beatles' harmony-rich R&B is on such masterful form, the only question ... Detail |
Rubber Soul(more) »rank: 79393by: The Beatles
Our review:Album Description:Rank 'em how you like, Rubber Soul is an undeniable pivot point in the Fab Four's varied discography no matter where, or how, you first heard it. The album was softened up in its original 12-song American edition to jibe with the Dylan/Byrds folk-rock sound, as well as squeeze money from the Parlophone catalog. The 14-song U.K. edition--the version now available on compact disc--is a different, more dynamic, and ultimately more accomplished achievement. So many classics: 'Drive My Car' and 'Nowhere Man' (both omitted from the U.S. edition) merge the early combustible Beatifics to a burgeoning studio consciousness; 'The Word' can be ... Detail |
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Rubber Soul(more) »rank: 32671by: The Beatles
Our review:Album Description:Japanese exclusive reissue of 1965 album. This Toshiba/EMI pressing features an OBI strip (different from the last Japanese pressings issued in 1990) & an insert with Japanese text & lyrics in Japanese & English. Manufactured & pressed in Japan. This album has been direct metal mastered from a digitally remastered original tape to give the best possible sound quality. 2003. essential recording:Rank 'em how you like, Rubber Soul is an undeniable pivot point in the Fab Four's varied discography no matter where, or how, you first heard it. The album was softened up in its original 12-song American edition to jibe ... Detail |
Odessey and Oracle(more) »rank: 81312by: The Zombies
Our review:Album Description:1998 reissue on Big Beat of their 1968 album featuring the smash 'Time Of The Season'. As the 30th anniversary edition of the recording, it contains both the stereo & mono versions of the original LPs 11 cuts and five bonus tracks: mono & stereo versions of 'This Will Be Our Year', plus 'A Rose For Emily' (Alternate Version 2), 'Time Of The Season' (Alternate Mix) and 'Prison Song aka Care Of Cell 44' (Backing Track), the last three of which are previously unreleased. 27 tracks total. Also contains the original cover art. 1998 Ace Records release. :The Zombies were perhaps the ... Detail |
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The Studio Albums 1967-1968(more) »rank: 79189by: The Bee Gees
Our review:Album Description:One of the best-selling and influential groups in popular music, The Bee Gees' career spanned five decades, five GRAMMYs and eight platinum albums - but until now, the group's extraordinary catalog has never been upgraded. Reprise begins its complete restoration of their repertoire with 2-CD expanded remasters of their first three internationally released albums. THE STUDIO ALBUMS 1967-1968 is the definitive overview of the 5-piece Bee Gees line-up that shot to stardom in the late '60s: harmonizing brothers Barry, Robin and Maurice Gibb, and Australian musicians Vince Melouney and Colin Petersen. The revitalization of these three early masterpieces marks the first time ... Detail |
Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band(more) »rank: 37961by: The Beatles
Our review:Album Description:One of the most famous and influential albums ever recorded, Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band had a huge impact on the music world, signaling the beginning of a new era of sophistication and maturity in rock. The musical experimentation was dynamic and fresh, several tracks were edited to create seamless transitions, and even the visual design was more elaborate than anything previously attempted. Producer George Martin and The Beatles searched for new sounds and studio effects. They added crowd sounds and animal cries from sound-effects recordings, sped up Paul McCartney's vocals in 'When I'm Sixty-Four' (to make him sound younger), and ... Detail |
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The Beatles Anthology: 3(more) »rank: 138646by: The Beatles
Our review: :From the White Album to the end, the last days of the Beatles weren't smooth, which made the fact that they still produced some astonishing music all the more remarkable. In abbreviated form, 'What's the New Mary Jane' is finally issued here, and proves underwhelming. For the rest of the set, it's largely down to outtakes and demos, but this time there isn't the same insight of the previous two volumes. Anthology 3 comes dangerously close to the sound of barrels being scraped. That said, it's the Beatles, and in whatever form, the music still shines brilliantly. --Chris Nickson Detail |
Endless Summer (2 LPs)(more) »rank: 95706by: The Beach Boys
Our review: essential recording:Brian Wilson's brilliance manifested itself in the euphoric, cheerfully square, sun-and-fun stuff heard here early on, before it got darker and more complicated. Endless Summer runs from the beginning of the Boys' pinstriped career to 1965, right before the melancholy of Pet Sounds, but also includes the inescapable 'Good Vibrations.' You can hear a few hints of adolescent sadness and fear--'Help Me, Rhonda' is essentially a kids' sing-along about a wrenching emotional rebound, and the shadow of death is hiding somewhere in 'Don't Worry, Baby'--but Wilson is mostly concerned with the cars, waves, and girls that made up the Boys' public ... Detail |